Carl Barks

Also known as The Duck Man, The Good Duck Artist

American cartoonist (1901-2000)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1901
Died: 2000
Works: 231

Top works

Walt Disney's hall of fame : de stora serieskaparna. 08, Carl Barks. Bok 2. Till bords i Ankeborg
Carl Barks Ankeborg: Spöket i grottan och andra historier från 1946-1947
Carl Barks Ankeborg: Den gyllene hjälmen och andra historier från 1952
Carl Barks Ankeborg: De vises sten och andra historier från 1955-1956
Carl Barks Ankeborg: Mayakungens krona och andra historier från1963

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Film & TV

Writing · Merrill, Oregon, USA

American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his comics about Donald Duck and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. Barks worked for the Disney Studio and Western Publishing where…

Known for

Walt Disney e l'Italia - Una storia d'amore2014
The Art and Animation of Carl Barks — Himself (archive footage)2005
Carl Barks - The Duck Maestro — Himself1994
Carl Barks - A Duckumentary — Self1994
Entenhausen ist überall — Self1994
The Overstreet World of Comic Books — Self1993

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Music · MusicBrainz

Country: IT

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 15
Total plays: 36

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,328x
The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments
· 2009 · cited 13,914x
Salmon provides fast and bias-aware quantification of transcript expression
· 2017 · cited 12,016x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,177x

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Key facts

Born: ( 1901-03-27 ) March 27, 1901 , Near Merrill, Oregon , U.S.
Died: August 25, 2000 (2000-08-25) (aged 99), Grants Pass, Oregon , U.S.
Area: Writer, Penciller , Artist, Inker
Notable works: Scrooge McDuck , Huey, Dewey, and Louie , Daisy Duck , Gyro Gearloose , Gladstone Gander , The Junior Woodchucks , Beagle Boys , Flintheart Glomgold , Magica De Spell , Neighbor J. Jones , Glittering Goldie , Cornelius Coot , John D. Rockerduck , Oil paintings of his duck characters
Spouses: Pearl Turner ( married"}]]}'>m. 1923 ; divorced"}]]}'>div. 1929 ) Clara Balken ( married"}]]}'>m. 1932 ; divorced"}]]}'>div. 1951 ) Garé Williams ( married"}]]}'>m. 1954 ; died 1993 )

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Wikidata facts

Image: Carl Barks signing autographs in Finland in 1994.jpg

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Commons category: Carl Barks
date of birth: 1901-03-27
date of death: 2000-08-25
Commons gallery: Carl Barks
start of work period: 1935-01-01
end of work period: 2000-01-01

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Article

Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him "The Duck Man" and "The Good Duck Artist". In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

Barks worked for Walt Disney Productions and Western Publishing where he created Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), The Junior Woodchucks (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952), Cornelius Coot (1952), Flintheart Glomgold (1956), John D. Rockerduck (1961) and Magica De Spell (1961).